Meet Kate Khaled, Lynnea Atlas-Ingebretson, and Taqee Khaled, the team behind Imagine Deliver. Along with 13 other values-driven businesses, they’re supporting Pollen’s mission to invest in human connection. Together, they challenge Pollenites to raise $15,000 by Give to the Max Day on November 16, which they will match dollar for dollar. Match the hive and donate today.
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Imagine Deliver is a mission-driven consulting firm that brings equity into action by focusing on community engagement and human-centered design. They help a broad array of cross-sector clients solve tough problems—from large public sector institutions to corporations interested in community impact, to small startups and new nonprofits. They make solutions universally accessible, build new programs that adapt to fit the future, and center the margins in every project—ensuring that an authentic end user voice is not only heard, but incorporated and honored at the highest levels of leadership.
They serve clients who want to change the world for the better and try new ways of solving old problems.
How do you go beyond the transactional and begin to find meaning and depth in your work?
We support talent and we guide equitable strategy development. Those are the ‘professional’ words for our work. As Lynnea often says, though, our work is soul work.
On a daily basis our work can take the following forms:
Sometimes we’re helping a company reimagine how it retains and promotes diverse talent, in other moments we’re about elevating a leader of color as they navigate their professional path. Other days we’re supporting a large nonprofit to redesign a core and beloved program to be more authentic and affirming. Still yet other days we’re connecting to a community at a moment when it’s experiencing intense conflict and needs to articulate its way forward. Sometimes we’re helping a foundation adapt its structure to be more responsive to a community it values.
Our work is soul work.
Each project or client is different. Across all of it, Imagine Deliver’s work is about practicing empathy, promoting vulnerability, and igniting brave action.
What responsibilities do you feel as a business leader in your community?
We are a Muslim-, Woman- and Person of Color- owned business. As the only white leader of Imagine Deliver (and as a fourth generation resident of Saint Paul), it’s my job to be an evangelist for the type of productive, creative, and lucrative innovation that happens when we welcome discomfort, openness, and equity.
Our team defies popular talent myths. I hope that as Imagine Deliver grows, we can continue to build a business that listens to, supports, and cultivates the most promising talent from right here within our community, while rejecting exclusionary narratives. I see it as Imagine Deliver’s job to demonstrate what it truly looks like to innovate by radical inclusion.
It’s my job to be an evangelist for the type of productive, creative, and lucrative innovation that happens when we welcome discomfort, openness, and equity.
Do you have a favorite mantra or quote to keep you going and inspired?
Equity is always a guaranteed value proposition. Always.
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